Jon Seymour, MD - Principal, Chairman & CEO

Dr. Seymour has pioneered initiatives in electronic medical publishing for over 25 years. He founded Gold Standard, an innovator in online drug information and medical education, having written the Clinical Pharmacology software himself, and ran the company from 1993-2002. Gold Standard was subsequently acquired by Elsevier.

in 2002, Jon became CEO of the Clinical Tools Division and then Chief Medical Officer for Wolters Kluwer Health, the world’s leading medical publisher. As CMO, he worked with all major brands, including Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Ovid, to effectively leverage the assets in all key growth areas of medical informatics, including point-of-care, point-of-learning, electronic medical records integration, e-prescribing, disease management, pharma-focused data, online advertising, and paid search.

In 2008, Jon joined Reed Group as President of Guidelines, where he expanded the market for the MDGuidelines return-to-work tools and disability durations through the introduction of predictive modeling and point-of-care web services. Reed Group was acquired by Guardian Life in 2012, after which he completed Reed's asset purchase of the ACOEM Practice Guidelines in 2013.

In 2014, Jon joined the Work Loss Data Institute team as Client Consultant and Advisory Board Member, and formed a strategic partnership with WLDI for Peers to provide sales, consulting, and technology services. WLDI was acquired by Hearst Health via its MCG business unit in 2017.

Jon contributed to Dr. Chris Brigham's Living Abled and Healthy, which Peers is proud to distribute.

Dr. Seymour graduated with double honors from University of Florida College of Medicine in 1993, and summa cum laude from Duke University in 1989.

John Nelson - Principal and Vice President, Business Development

John Nelson is a seasoned business development professional with over 20 years in the insurance and healthcare industries. John’s driving force is allowing integrity to be his guide. This translates into listening before speaking, drilling down to truly understand his clients’ needs and then chasing value on their behalf. John has produced year over year profitability while at the same time solving complex issues for his clients.

With expertise focused on where health care delivery intersects with technology – specifically in the areas of workers’ compensation, disability, and absence management – John has built solid relationships and helped operationalize solutions with some of the industry’s largest hospital systems, insurance companies, 3rd party administrators, employers and governments across the world including Kaiser Permanente, Aetna and the Department of Defense.

Prior to joining Peers Health, John led the new and renewal business development efforts for Reed Group’s online medical decision support solutions, MDGuidelines and ACOEM. During his tenure, John catalyzed strong organic growth both domestically and internationally while also overseeing a network of channel partnership distributors.

Paul Daly - Principal and Chief Technology Officer

Paul Daly is a veteran technology professional with over 20 years of experience developing innovative software solutions across multiple vertical markets, including healthcare, telecommunications, and manufacturing.

As a detail-oriented technologist and logistician, Paul bridges the gap between business strategy and operational execution. His diverse skill set is exemplified by the many roles he has filled in technology management, project management, systems architecture, and product development.

Paul has had the opportunity to consult with many Fortune 500 companies, allowing him to work with numerous technologies and gain experience integrating with many software systems. Some of those companies include SUN Microsystems, Level3 Communications, and DirecTV.

Paul spent 4 years as the consulting CTO for the Guidelines business unit of Reed Group Ltd. of Westminster CO, known as MDGuidelines. During this time, he achieved numerous business and technology successes with extremely limited resources. The unit’s dramatic growth has been driven by a completely modernized web site featuring new, industry-leading predictive modeling capabilities and a large-scale web services platform to support integration with healthcare software partners.